The Lady in the Tower
Book description
Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that…
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I read this book many years ago as it covers the imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn.
With its immense detail, it is one of the few books you need to read on this later period of Anne's life. Best of all, the author has reassessed the evidence and done away with romantic misconceptions. It is therefore an utterly reliable resource. The storytelling is superb, easy to read, and, again, hard to put down.
I return to it again and again for reference material but it still makes a gripping holiday read.
From Natalia's list on Tudor that are informative and imaginative.
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